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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"Collectives."”.
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Bacterial collectives
The natural world is full of bacterial collectives, ranging from transient aggregations to highly integrated groups. These structures can display multicellular‑like features but typically do not reproduce as groups, and thus are not units of selection in a paradigmatic Lewontin-sense. In the …
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Cross-arts Production Methods Utilising Collectives
The very notion of ‘cross-arts’ calls for large collaborations of artists that serve different art disciplines and are eager to spend time in an artistic collective environment. The roles of the participants are not always distinct; in these productions artists acquire roles in a variety of …
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Thermal Collectives Architectural Imaginaries Beyond Modern Comfort
The era of abundance is over. The urgent need for CO2 emission reductions, combined with the rising price of energy and building materials, as well as restrictions on construction waste, call for alternative modes of building and inhabiting our cities. The notion of “comfort” implies practices of …
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Cooperative control of autonomous mobile robot collectives in payload transportation
A distributed paradigm is proposed for behavior-based control of a homogeneous collection of autonomous mobile robots in the lifting and lowering processes of payload transportation. Unlike previous applications of behavior-based control to payload transportation, we examine control of a payload in …
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Collective realism: exploring the development and outcomes of urban housing collectives
… for collective ownership of housing. Housing collectives are organisations controlled by their members and residents, operating in a defined geography, which collectively own and manage land and housing for the benefit of a designated group. But why have such organisations consistently been a …
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Corporations as Group Agents / Responsible Collectives in Theory and in Practice
<p>The goals of this dissertation are to examine the existing philosophical literature on group agency and collective responsibility and to demonstrate that this literature fails to sufficiently address the hierarchical organization of corporations, thereby severely limiting the applicability of …
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Artists’ Collectives and Collectivities: A Curatorial Investigation into Assembling the Social
This thesis begins with an examination of collective art practices in Cuba in relation to the wider collectivised society. This acts as a counterbalance for engaging with the strategy of artists’ groups in the United Kingdom and the differences between political thinking in Cuba and the West. …
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The Organizations That Coordinated The Kolkhozy From 1918 to 1933 (Ussr; Collectives)
This thesis presents an analysis of organizations that coordinated the kolkhozy from 1918 to 1933. Using a chronological approach, the analysis methodically investigates the identity of organizations that coordinated the kolkhozy, clarifies the functions and characterizes the internal and external …
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Women of Color Collectives in Doctoral Education: How Women of Color Doctoral Students Thrive Together
… of Color who have created and continue to create collectives to survive and, more importantly, thrive within academia. This qualitative phenomenological study uses Critical Feminist theory and Plática methodology to understand how and why Women of Color create collectives in their doctoral …
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Data work configurations in the field-based natural sciences: mesoscale infrastructures, project collectives, and data gateways
… of the analysis, three kinds of mesoscale data collectives are characterized as Local, Archive, and Developing. Three case studies illustrate the diversity of data work configurations, characterize mesoscale infrastructures as future-making prototypes, and demonstrate the relevance of Local Data …
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“Envisioning Digital Sanctuaries”: An Exploration of Virtual Collectives for Nurturing Professional Development of Women in Technical Domains
… to the theory and practice of how virtual collectives can be designed and sustained to offer spaces for enrichment, empowerment, and advocacy, focusing on the professional development of historically underrepresented voices such as women.</p>
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Re-making collectives. A study of changes in the living environments of mainland Greece, 2500-2100 BCE
… more permanent communities – the remaking of collectives.
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Community Photography: Radicalism and a Culture of Protest in the London-based Photography Collectives of the 1970s
… photography’ in the London-based photography collectives was born of the social and political conditions in Britain in the 1970s. It drew impetus from protest within the Women’s Liberation Movement, and experience from political campaigns on childcare, sub-standard housing, the rebuilding and …
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The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the College of Sociology: Avant-Garde Collectives in Contact
<p>Collections are mysterious things. A book or text can provide an initial model of a collection. Letters, words, sentences, paragraphs collide to form some sense of meaning. Disparate elements, brought in proximity of each other, gain significance through such closeness. These spheres of related …
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Les parcours d'adhésion aux croyances collectives dans le domaine du religieux: une étude de cas dans l'Italie du Nord
Ce travail se situe dans le domaine de la sociologie des religions : il sâ€TMagit dâ€TMune monographie issue dâ€TMune enquÃate de terrain conduite avec des méthodes qualitatives. Lâ€TMenjeu est de saisir la croyance religieuse à partir de lâ€TMétude dâ€TMun phénomà ̈ne spécifique : …
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Optimizing Communication for Massively Parallel Processing
In this thesis, we motivate the need for hardware collectives, as processor based collectives can be delayed by intermediate that processors busy with computation. We show the performance gains of a next generation network with hardware collectives, through synthetic benchmarks.
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"Real Queens Fix Each Other's Crown": Addressing the Misseducation of the Blackgirl
<p>To what extent, do Blackgirl collectives imbue its participants with values that inspire them to pursue a college education? Blackgirl collectives have the potential to promote intellectual diversity, justice, and equality that can deter violence and exclusionary policies in the pursuit of a …
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Quelles sont les ressources que les chômeurs mobilisent pour défendre ce qu’ils identifient comme étant leurs intérêts ?
… the isolated unemployed persons and activist collectives (F.G.T.B., C.S.C ., "Chômeur actif", "Chômeur pas chien !" et "Stop chasse aux chômeurs"). We discovered that the difficulties connected to the way of life of unemployed persons (feeling of uselessness, financial difficulties, boredom, …
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Configurable Hierarchical Allreduce Algorithms for HPC Systems
… design for the Allgather and Reduce Scatter collectives, which serve as the building blocks for a parameterized Allreduce. The approach is controlled by two variables: the radix k of the recursive exchange pattern and the batch size b that groups processes to exploit intra node shared memory …
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